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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Sunday 23 August 2026

15 drone flights from Arvada Police Department's published record.

15

drone flights over Arvada that day.

9:43 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:28 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 15 times on Sunday 23 August 2026, the first at 9:43 am and the last at 10:28 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, MDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service47%
  2. Assisting another agency27%
  3. Other27%

Flights, in order

15 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
9:43 amAssisting another agency9 min377d09fb
1:58 pmCall for service21 min4a07a412
3:11 pmOther6 min0e34cc98
3:22 pmAssisting another agency12 mind6bee823
3:51 pmAssisting another agency9 minb08b37c0
4:32 pmCall for service9 min9f6387fc
5:06 pmOther11 min181e6fa4
5:40 pmAssisting another agency17 minbd6ba872
6:03 pmCall for service15 min9ef7a7e4
6:36 pmCall for service18 mina2bef10f
7:05 pmCall for service6 mind1051165
8:38 pmOther16 minc38d6304
8:55 pmOther14 minb3889f94
9:19 pmCall for service16 minb5b8898a
10:28 pmCall for service17 min17f994e6

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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